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A strong majority of voters in Doña Ana County, N.M., support the designation of a national monument to protect the Organ Mountains and surrounding landmarks and archaeological sites along the Mexican border, according to a new poll commissioned by a veterans group.

At least two-thirds of the Army Corps of Engineers' levee and flood control projects recently under construction have exceeded their budgets, according to a report released yesterday by a government watchdog.

House Speaker John Boehner is backing a Republican push to pass emergency drought legislation for California, a move that could spark a revival of the state's 2009 water wars.

Renewable energy companies and advocates are urging Congress to extend a bevy of expired tax breaks while expanding eligibility for the main solar energy tax credit with a modification similar to one applied last year to the credit for wind and other renewable sources.

Federal scientists are worried that a bill aimed at boosting government transparency will inadvertently bar them from attending conferences important to their research.

Climate change will be on the agenda this afternoon when mayors visit the White House to meet with senior staff as part of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' winter meeting.

The Department of Energy recently assured lawmakers that no federal grant funding to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy went to boost the group's anti-coal efforts.

The Energy Department plans to zero in on transmission and distribution infrastructure when it releases its much-anticipated Quadrennial Energy Review.

Independent investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today urged the Obama administration to significantly strengthen U.S. crude-oil-by-rail regulations in landmark recommendations hailed by the Republican senator who represents the booming Bakken Shale region.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said today that her agency will reconsider its 2013 cellulosic biofuel mandate in light of objections raised by the oil industry.

Energy markets were roiled yesterday when the cost of producing electricity in the gas-rich Midwest and mid-Atlantic soared above $1,000 per megawatt-hour for the first time as arctic temperatures squeezed the East Coast.

John Beale's masquerade as an undercover CIA operative started off as a joke. As a top official in U.S. EPA's air office, his work involved extensive travel and confidential meetings with Capitol Hill staffers and members of Congress. "People would joke about it, and I would deny it and I would laugh it off or I would say something like, well, if I told you anything, I'd have to kill you. I mean, it was a -- it was a joke," Beale told a House committee last month behind closed doors. That joke snowballed into a long-term scheme that has resulted in jail time.

Villagers occupying a hillside in Morocco for more than two years have cut the water supply to a silver mine in protest of environmental damage they blame on the facility.

Animal activists in the Ivory Coast are capturing and relocating elephants whose traditional habitat has been ruined by human encroachment.

Mexico City officials are implementing a new law that requires the city's restaurants to offer filtered tap water to customers, who have long shunned the city's drinking water over fears it will make them sick.

China has identified fireworks as a contributor to air pollution and is cracking down on the showy displays ahead of lunar New Year celebrations planned for next week.

In a push to recruit more young hunters, Idaho is aiming to lower the age limit for hunting big game.

Owners of hybrid vehicles in Virginia would not have to pay an annual license tax under a new bill approved yesterday by the Virginia House of Delegates.

California state lawmakers appear to have reached a compromise on legislation that would ban plastic bags at grocery stores in the nation's most populous state and require residents to purchase paper or reusable bags instead.

A Houston company has abandoned a controversial water plan that pitted ranchers against suburban homeowners in the latest battle over water rights in drought-stricken Texas.

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